Google promises that Chrome will be a much more secure than Windows. Well, yes, but it also has one big problem as well.
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Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
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Dealing With Strange Filenames
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Occasionally, usually due to an earlier typo, you end up with files with peculiar names. Usually these are easily removable, but if you have a file with a name starting -...rm -file will not work.
Read more »Fedora 12 to remove unprivileged package installation
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The update will require local console users to enter the root password to install new software
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KDE Community Releases KOffice 2.1
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The KOffice team is very happy to announce version 2.1.0 of KOffice, 6 months after the platform release 2.0.0. This release brings a number of new features as well as general improvements in the maturity of the individual applications. Importing of documents have also been given an overhaul.
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Advisory Against WiFi Drivers in Linux Staging Tree
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Dan Williams, Red Hat collaborator and NetworkManager developer, might be upset but doesn't let it get to him. In the GNOME blog, he advises "just say no" to WiFi drivers in the linux-staging tree and recommends changes.
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GlusterFS performance tuning for small files, replication, distributed, NUFA
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Small files performance is still the Achiles heel of GlusterFS. Tuning for replication (AFR, mirroring), distributed and NUFA setups is a non-trivial task, and you must know your application behaviour, your hardware and network infrastructure.
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Fedora 13 May Support Btrfs System Rollbacks
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One of the features though that has just been proposed for Fedora 13 is rather interesting and that is system rollback support via Btrfs file-system snapshots.
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No more rebooting
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Imagine updating your PC’s kernel and not having to reboot. That dream has become a reality with the Linux operating system thanks to KSplice. Jack Wallen shows you how you can have as close to 100-percent uptime as possible.
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The Perfect Server - Fedora 12 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]
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This tutorial shows how to prepare a Fedora 12 server (x86_64) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.
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Firebird database is available in top major linux distros
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All major free distro have now latest Firebird stable version (2.1.3) available in their official repositories.
Here is the list of where firebird 2.1.3 is included or can be installed
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The GStreamer, Cairo Video Hackfest Results
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Last month we talked about a hackfest to improve Linux video playback that came about after a GNOME developer began work on using Cairo/Pixman for raw video in GStreamer and looking at other ways to leverage hardware acceleration within this major open-source multimedia framework.
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Setup Ubuntu 9.10 Server PV DomU at Xen 3.4.1 Dom0 (2.6.31.6 pvops kernel) on top of Fedora 12
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A brief description of Xen 3.4.1 and Libvirt 0.7.1-15 deployment to Fedora 12 follows bellow...
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tmpreaper – Cleans up files in directories based on their age
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This package provides a program that can be used to clean out temporary-file directories. It recursively searches the directory, refusing to chdir() across symlinks, and removes files that haven't been accessed in a user-specified amount of time. You can specify a set of files to protect from deletion with a shell pattern.
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Development in PHP is always a tricky road to follow, with many elements outside of your control. (Server, browser, operating systems). In this article we'll discuss the two most important things we should try to remember when developing in PHP.
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Vim 101: A Beginner's Guide to Vim
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Ever wanted to learn Vim, but weren't sure how to start? No problem. We have you covered! This will be the first of a four-part (possibly longer) series covering how to use Vim and where to start using the world's best text editor.
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